ba-bye, Brother Roy

It was a bad week, overall, for (suddenly former) Alabama Chief Justice Roy "Moses" Moore.

Can you imagine? A Chief Justice sacked just because he insisted on being an evangelical judge. Cryyyy me a rivaaahh!

If Roy Moore wants to evangelize, if he wants everyone who will listen to understand the basic tenets of his beliefs, let him take his rightful place in the pulpit. I certainly wouldn't begrudge him that. He is obviously a man of principle, at least he appears to be so in the media, but he went too far with the hefty monument ensconced within the courthouse itself.

The United States as a free Nation were not founded by a society that was uniform in its religious beliefs. (Aaaggggghh! Nooooo! Blasphemer!)

Yes, it's true. Many of my ancestors were members of the Dutch Reformed Church, and most were involved in their local church after their arrival in New Amsterdam (long before Stuyvesant was the Dutch governor). After the British conquest of the Port of New Amsterdam, most of my family moved north along the east side of the Hudson River. They settled at a place later known as Sleepy Hollow, and founded a local Dutch Reformed Church there. This is the legendary "Old Dutch Church" of Sleepy Hollow. It is a real place, and I'm happy to be able to say that I have some roots there.

Some of the Revolutionary War veterans in my ancestral tree participated in Sullivan's March.

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